White House officials on Tuesday sought to downplay comments President Donald Trump made urging Republicans to “nationalize” elections. Trump, in a podcast interview with former deputy FBI director Dan Bongino, claimed that “Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over'” elections “in at least 15 places,” despite states being given large authority over administering elections […]

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protected status for more than 350,000 Haitians in the United States this week, in an opinion that drew fierce criticism from conservative legal experts. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, issued a lengthy and scathing ruling late on Monday […]

A partial shutdown is ending after the House voted Tuesday to reopen the government, but a full-year Department of Homeland Security funding deal remains elusive as Democrats press immigration enforcement reform demands. The House voted 217-214 on an appropriations package that includes five full-year funding bills and a 10-day continuing resolution to fund the DHS. […]

The Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation after vandals broke into and desecrated a Catholic school campus in Long Beach, California, destroying religious statues and causing extensive damage, federal and local officials said. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon announced in a Monday X post that the department’s Civil Rights Division would investigate what she described as […]